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[Yogui]

The new PEAR package Payment_DTA-1.3.0a1 (alpha) has been released at http://pear.php.net/.

Release notes
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[+] add class DTAZV (and DTABase)
[-] check number of purpose lines in DTA
[-] improved handling of extention fields in DTA (should fix bug #4637)
( [+] Added [-] Fixed [*] Improved [!] Note )

Package Info
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Payment_DTA provides functions to create DTA files used in Germany to exchange informations about money transactions with banks or online banking programs.

Related Links
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Package home: http://pear.php.net/package/Payment_DTA
Changelog: http://pear.php.net/package/Payment_...wnload/1.3.0a1
Download: http://download.pear.php.net/package...TA-1.3.0a1.tgz

Authors
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Martin Schütte <info@mschuette.name> (lead)

[Yogui]

The new PEAR package Services_Facebook-0.1.8 (alpha) has been released at http://pear.php.net/.

Release notes
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* Updated friends.get to support passing in a uid as an argument.

Package Info
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An interface for accessing Facebook's web services API at http://api.facebook.com.

Related Links
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Package home: http://pear.php.net/package/Services_Facebook
Changelog: http://pear.php.net/package/Services...download/0.1.8
Download: http://download.pear.php.net/package...book-0.1.8.tgz

Authors
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Joe Stump <pear@joestump.net> (lead)
Travis Swicegood (developer)
Jeff Hodsdon <jeffhodsdon@gmail.com> (lead)

[Yogui]

The new PEAR package Services_GeoNames-0.2.2 (beta) has been released at http://pear.php.net/.

Release notes
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* added getter/setter for request (now protected),
* better exceptions management,
* better tests layout/coverage.

Package Info
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Services_GeoNames is a PHP5 interface to the various webservices offered by
the GeoNames project.

The GeoNames database contains over 8,000,000 geographical names corresponding
to over 6,500,000 unique features. All features are categorized into one out
of nine feature classes and further subcategorized into one out of 645 feature
codes. Beyond names of places in various languages, data stored include
latitude, longitude, elevation, population, administrative subdivision and
postal codes. All coordinates use the WGS84 system (World Geodetic System 1984).

Those data are accessible free of charge through a number of Web services and
a daily database export. The Web services include direct and reverse geocoding,
finding places through postal codes, finding places next to a given place, and
finding Wikipedia articles about neighbouring places.

For more information please visit:
* http://www.geonames.org
* http://www.geonames.org/export/ws-overview.html
* http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GeoNames

Related Links
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Package home: http://pear.php.net/package/Services_GeoNames
Changelog: http://pear.php.net/package/Services...download/0.2.2
Download: http://download.pear.php.net/package...ames-0.2.2.tgz

Authors
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David Jean Louis (lead)

[Yogui]

The new PEAR package Net_Whois-1.0.1 (stable) has been released at http://pear.php.net/.

Release notes
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Bug #579 Net_Whois fails
Bug #1301 Not "optimized" in a call to PEAR_ERROR
Bug #1304 Syntax error in line 165
Bug #2052 Syntax error in line 248 & 249
Bug #2053 Syntax error in line 264
Bug #4859 DB_FETCHMODE_ASSOC and CaseSensitiveField
Bug #6348 Using = before domain name hangs ?
Bug #14799 Improve PHPCS results

Package Info
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The PEAR::Net_Whois looks up records in the databases maintained by several Network Information Centers (NICs).

Related Links
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Package home: http://pear.php.net/package/Net_Whois
Changelog: http://pear.php.net/package/Net_Whois/download/1.0.1
Download: http://download.pear.php.net/package...hois-1.0.1.tgz

Authors
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Seamus Venasse (lead)

[Yogui]

The new PEAR package Services_Akismet2-0.2.0 (alpha) has been released at http://pear.php.net/.

Release notes
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Redeveloped version of Services_Akismet. Changes include:
* BC break to use HTTP_Request2 (Bug #15069).
* Added shortcut constructor for comment class.
* Added ability to set API endpoint (Bug #15387).
* Fluent interface for base class and comment.
* Enhanced exceptions.
* Fix setting HTTP referer in comment constructor.
* Throw invalid API key exception when making a method call instead of in the constructor.
* API doc cleanups.
* Update unit tests to use mock HTTP objects.

Package Info
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This package provides an object-oriented interface to the Akismet REST API. The Akismet API is used to detect and to filter spam comments posted on weblogs.

There are several anti-spam service providers that use the Akismet API. To use the API, you will need an API key from such a provider. Example providers include Wordpress (http://wordpress.com) and TypePad (http://antispam.typepad.com).

Most services are free for personal or low-volume use, and offer licensing for commercial or high-volume applications.

This package is derived from the miPHP Akismet class written by Bret Kuhns for use in PHP 4. This package requires PHP 5.2.1.

Related Links
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Package home: http://pear.php.net/package/Services_Akismet2
Changelog: http://pear.php.net/package/Services...download/0.1.0
Download: http://download.pear.php.net/package...met2-0.1.0.tgz

Authors
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Michael Gauthier (lead)

[Yogui]

The new PEAR package Services_YouTube-0.2.2 (alpha) has been released at http://pear.php.net/.

Release notes
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Package 2.0

Package Info
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PHP Client for YouTube API

Related Links
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Package home: http://pear.php.net/package/Services_YouTube
Changelog: http://pear.php.net/package/Services...download/0.2.2
Download: http://download.pear.php.net/package...Tube-0.2.2.tgz

Authors
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Shin Ohno <shin@php.net> (lead)

[Yogui]

The new PEAR package Services_Facebook-0.2.0 (alpha) has been released at http://pear.php.net/.

Release notes
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* Batching support
* PHPUnit tests

Package Info
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An interface for accessing Facebook's web services API at http://api.facebook.com

Related Links
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Package home: http://pear.php.net/package/Services_Facebook
Changelog: http://pear.php.net/package/Services...download/0.2.0
Download: http://download.pear.php.net/package...book-0.2.0.tgz

Authors
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Joe Stump <pear@joestump.net> (lead)
Travis Swicegood (developer)
Jeff Hodsdon <jeffhodsdon@gmail.com> (lead)

The new PEAR package Services_W3C_HTMLValidator-1.0.0RC2 (beta) has been released at http://pear.php.net/.

Release notes
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* Switch to HTTP_Request2

Package Info
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This package provides an object oriented interface to the API
of the W3 HTML Validator application (http://validator.w3.org/).
With this package you can connect to a running instance of the validator and
retrieve the validation results (true|false) as well as the errors and warnings
for a web page.

By using the SOAP 1.2 output format from the validator, you are returned simple
objects containing all the information from the validator. With this package it is
trivial to build a validation system for web publishing.

Related Links
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Package home: http://pear.php.net/package/Services_W3C_HTMLValidator
Changelog: http://pear.php.net/package/Services...nload/1.0.0RC2
Download: http://download.pear.php.net/package...r-1.0.0RC2.tgz

Authors
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Brett Bieber <brett.bieber@gmail.com> (lead)

The new PECL package geoip-1.0.6 (stable) has been released at http://pecl.php.net/.

Release notes
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* Fixing compile bug when multiple GeoIP libs are installed, bug #15372.

Package Info
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This PHP extension allows you to find the location of an IP address - City, State, Country, Longitude, Latitude, and other information as all, such as ISP and connection type. For more info, please visit Maxmind's website.

Related Links
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Package home: http://pecl.php.net/package/geoip
Changelog: http://pecl.php.net/package-changelog.php?package=geoip
Download: http://pecl.php.net/get/geoip-1.0.6.tgz

Authors
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Olivier Hill <ohill@php.net> (lead)

The new PEAR package Services_ExchangeRates-0.6.0 (beta) has been released at http://pear.php.net/.

Release notes
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Major refactoring of class to allow for dependency injection, and decoupled code.
Added unit test coverage.
Added the ability to choose from either Cached HTTP, file_get_contents(), or simulated data fetching
Removed dead code - Countries_UN
Be aware: You'll have to update code which was using 0.5.X API!

Package Info
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Extendable to work with any source that provides exchange rate data, this class downloads
exchange rates and the name of each currency (US Dollar, Euro, Maltese Lira, etc.) and
converts between any two of the available currencies (the actual number of currencies
supported depends on the exchange rate feed used).

Related Links
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Package home: http://pear.php.net/package/Services_ExchangeRates
Changelog: http://pear.php.net/package/Services...download/0.6.0
Download: http://download.pear.php.net/package...ates-0.6.0.tgz

Authors
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Marshall Roch <mroch@php.net> (lead)
Colin Ross <colinross@gmail.com> (lead)

The new PEAR package Services_Akismet2-0.3.0 (alpha) has been released at http://pear.php.net/.

Release notes
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* Fixed Bug #15567: Exception is thrown when referrer is not set in comment.
* Fixed Req #15569: Ability to set a custom user-agent.
* Fixed Bug #15571: Don't always include server-related fields. There is a new parameter on the isSpam() method to auto-set server-related fields.
* API doc cleanups.
* Wrote end-user documentation (PEAR manual is not up-to-date yet, but source files are in CVS).
* More complete unit tests.
* Fix bug in 0.2.0 that caused incorrect host to be used to requests requiring an API key.
* Allow specifying comment as an array rather than an object.
* Make $fields property of comment class protected for easier sub-classing of the comment class.
* PHPCS cleanups.

Package Info
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This package provides an object-oriented interface to the Akismet REST API. The Akismet API is used to detect and to filter spam comments posted on weblogs.

There are several anti-spam service providers that use the Akismet API. To use the API, you will need an API key from such a provider. Example providers include Wordpress (http://wordpress.com) and TypePad (http://antispam.typepad.com).

Most services are free for personal or low-volume use, and offer licensing for commercial or high-volume applications.

This package is derived from the miPHP Akismet class written by Bret Kuhns for use in PHP 4. This package requires PHP 5.2.1.

Related Links
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Package home: http://pear.php.net/package/Services_Akismet2
Changelog: http://pear.php.net/package/Services...download/0.3.0
Download: http://download.pear.php.net/package...met2-0.3.0.tgz

Authors
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Michael Gauthier (lead)